Highland Park History

Unknown

US IlHpHS Eagle-147-000-00
Item

Part of Walt Durbahn Museum Collection

Upper corridor

US IlHpHS 2014.11-Images-15e
Item
circa 1928-1934

Part of Mandel family collection

Furnished hallway.

Vegetable patch

US IlHpHS high.kod-076
Item
1967-04

Part of Highland Park Kodachrome Slide Collection

Planting along ravine.

Veterans group portrait

US IlHpHS Visu.Pho-1.22-3.8
Item
circa 1910-1917

Part of Visual Photograph

Group photograph of men wearing military medals, including for the Grand Army of the Republic and Cavalry insignia. Note on back of frame backing states "Left hand corner Geo. S. Rettig, grandfather Jack Rettig." George Rettig served in the U.S. Army 15th Infantry, Company D, during the "Indian Wars." John Finney appears to be third from left in the back row.

Hecketsweiler Studio (Highland Park, Ill.)

Viburnum dentatum : Specimen photographed lying on a glass shelf

US IlHpHS 1996.5-PDHP-5.4
Item
1910-1925

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A photograph taken of Viburnum dentatum, which is also commonly known as arrowwood.

View down avenue leading to Concord Bridge

US IlHpHS 1996.5-LC-0313
Item
1911-08-26

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A photograph of the road leading down to the Concord Bridge, which was the site of the battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolutionary War.

View on Francis Street (Williamsburg)

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0259
Item
ca. 1911

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A photograph of a few houses on Francis Street in Wiilliamsburg, Va.

W. C. Egan

US IlHpHS 2021.3-1
Item
1917

Part of Berg family collection

Wagon Jack

US IlHpHS Eagle-154-000-00
Item

Part of Walt Durbahn Museum Collection

Wagon wheel quilt

US IlHpHS obj-1974.wag
Item
1895

Part of Artifacts collection

Pieced, possibly for a woman's circle of the (First) Baptist Church or the first Evangelical Congregational Church. This 1895 block quilt of wagon wheels is an early example community fundraising in Highland Park, Illinois. It contains 564 names. A wheel's center name is probably the church or missionary member sewing that section with the names in the spokes being subscribers to her wheel. 192 x 190 cm.

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